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4 أَصْفَقَ see 1, latter half, in five places: ― -b2- and see also 2. -A2- أَصْفَقُوا عَلَيْهِ i. q. تَبَايَعُوا عَلَيْهِ [i. e. They made a covenant, or compact, respecting it, or to do it, as though by striking their hands together], namely, the thing, or affair: (TA in art. بيع: [see صَفَقَ يَدَهُ بِالبَيْعَةِ; and see also 3, and 6, and صَفْقَةٌ:]) they combined consentaneously, or agreed together, respecting it, or to do it, namely, the thing, or affair; syn. أَطْبَقُوا عَلَيْهِ, (S, O, K,) or اِجْتَمَعُوا عَلَيْهِ. (M.) And أَصْفَقُوا عَلَيْنَا [They combined, or collected themselves together, against us]. (M, from a verse of Zuheyr.) أَصْفَقَتْ لَهُ نِسْوَانُ مَكَّةَ occurs in a trad. as meaning The women of Mekkeh collected themselves together to him: or, as some relate it, ↓ اِنْصَفَقَتْ . (TA.) And one says, أَصْفَقُوا لَهُ meaning حَشَدُوا [i. e. They collected themselves together to him; or they combined to treat him with courtesy and honour]. (M.) ― -b2- اصفق لَهُمْ He brought them as much food as would satisfy their hunger: (O, K:) said in relation to the entertainment of guests. (O.) ― -b3- أَصْفَقَتْ يَدُهُ بِكَذَا, (S, O,) or يَدِى, (K,) His hand, or my hand, lighted on, met with, or encountered, such a thing; syn. صَادَفَتْهُ and وَافَقَتْهُ. (S, O, K.) En-Nemir Ibn-Towlab says, (S, O, TA,) describing a جَزَّار [or slaughterer of camels], (TA,) “ حَتَّى إِِذَا قُسِمَ النَّصِيبُ وَأَصْفَقَتْ
يَدُهُ بِجَلْدَةِ ضَرْعِهَا وَحُوَارِهَا
” [Until, or until when, the share was divided, and his hand lighted on the skin of her udder and her young one]. (S, O, TA: but in the S, طُرِحَ is put in the place of قُسِمَ.) -A3- أَصْفَقَ القَوْمُ The people, or party, were, or became, in a state of commotion, or tumult; syn. اِضْطَرَبُوا. (M, TA. [See also 8.]) -A4- أُصْفِقَ لِى It was appointed, or ordained, for me; or prepared for me. (TA.) -A5- اصفق الغَنَمَ He milked the sheep, or goats, but once in the day; (S, M, O, TA;) and so with س: (TA in art. سفق:) or الإِِصْفَاقُ signifies the milking once in the day and night. (TA.) -A6- اصفق الثَّوْبَ He wove the garment (M, TA) strongly, stoutly, firmly, (M,) thickly, substantially, closely, or compactly. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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